Gabriel Axel. [9] Axel gave the script to Audran, told her that Deneuve was contemplating the role, and asked her if she might be able to respond before the next day. . The words are marked as borrowed property transmitted verbatim, displaced but not appropriated or distorted. For fifteen years he intended this film to be a . Babette is a symbol of beauty without spiritual beauty, beauty by itself, swung to the extreme. Anticipating seeing Martine again, the now aging Loewenhielm is plagued by doubts. The narrator then tells us that while the women in the town wore bustles the sisters did not nor did they own any article of fashion but dressed in gray hues. In this celebratory feast, he says, righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another. By this he seems to mean that spirituality can be achieved in this world as well as in the next and that spirituality may be closely related to human pleasure without lapsing into sinfulness. [26][27], For the 1958 short story Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen, see, Last edited on 31 December 2022, at 13:46, Grand Prix (Belgian Film Critics Association), List of submissions to the 60th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, List of Danish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, "The 60th Academy Awards (1988) Nominees and Winners", "Babettes Gaestebud (Babette's Feast) (1987)", "In 'Babette,' A Great Feast For the Palate And the Eye", "Alton Brown Rigorously Reviews Spicy Wings | Hot Ones", "Why does Pope Francis want us to watch the movie "Babette's Feast"? Dinesen explains: Usually in Berlevaag people did not speak much while they were eating. That sound was the whisper heard in the perfect works of artists such as Mother Theresa, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas and Therese of Lisieux. They get a taste of sensuous beauty but they dont drink deeply, dont unite in marriage with beauty. At the end of The Cardinals First Tale, the person to whom the cardinal has been speaking, listing the virtues of stories as opposed to novels; the person who has heard the cardinal proclaim that it is only the story which can answer the cry in all of our heartsWho am I?; this person asks the cardinal how he knows whom he, as a storyteller, actually serves; the cardinal has no clear answer. Never will they have the chance to thank her and never will they learn that the price of such free gift came at the cost of her now life long poverty. He makes an after dinner speech that is more of a sermon and prayer. <>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 22/Tabs/S/Type/Page>> 2 Mar. The change in location also had certain consequences for the language; it is Danish we hear on the soundtrack rather than Norwegian. We have all of us been told that grace is to be found in the universe. On a cold afternoon and under the blackened skies covering the Earth's womb, a voice in the wild pierced the hearts of all the living that ever were minted from the dirt of our mountains and deserts. The story flashes back 49 years, showing the sisters in their youthful loveliness. Their late father was a pastor who founded his own Pietistic conventicle. e De onde? His influence is far from explicit. Before carrying the cross of her own poverty and before entering Christ's given chance to delight the angels as the artist that God meant her to be, it was the long cry from the heart of The Master Artist which was cross and delight for all on earth and in Heaven.Now, the Teacher gave His student the chance to do her very best by giving away that culinary masterpiece which delighted the palates of all those men and women who never were meant to know that the author of the greatest feast they ever experienced was the Master Chef at the Cafe' Anglais. The only person described as an angel in the story was Martina and Phillipa and all the guests were said to have halos. 1006 0 obj Babette was a refugee from a revolutionary political life in Paris. <>stream
Sometime after their father dies, the sisters decide to hold a dinner to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth. They found that troubles and cares had been conjured away from their existence, and that now they had money to give away, time for the confidences and complaints of their old friends and peace for meditating on heavenly matters. But our narrator has indicated that Babette has delighted and served and enchanted Angels already, at the dinner. The role of Babette was originally offered to renowned French actress Catherine Deneuve, but when she hesitated . The screenplay, written by Axel, was based on the 1958 story of the same name by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<732FC72917ADB2110A00E0577217FF7F>]/Index[952 55]/Info 951 0 R/Length 112/Prev 630714/Root 953 0 R/Size 1007/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream
It is difficult to characterize this effect among other speech acts and presentations of thought in literature. In this grim setting, a white-bearded Dean led a . The food included real caviar, real cailles en sarcophage, with truffles and authentic sauces. But it cant be that simple. Berlevaag, the Norwegian town where Dinesen set the story (it is located under the mountains, near Berlevaag Fjord, in the storys opening paragraph), was simply too pastel-coloredtoo tourist-friendlyfor the filmmakers requirements. It was also the first Danish film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. But in our human foolishness and short-sightedness we imagine divine grace to be finite. As the Body and Spirit in which all works of perfect redemption found their exhausted completeness, the sound of all symphonies ever composed by God's Created geniuses was heard in the words 'It is consummated'. The natural beauty is transformed or gifted its true telos. It is brilliant, in fact, in its hollowness; clich and cryptic. These included Lisbeth Movin as the Old Widow, Preben Lerdorff Rye as the Captain, Axel Strbye as the Driver, Bendt Rothe as Old Nielsen and Ebbe Rode as Christopher. In contrast, Babette is the symbol for sensuous beauty. They speak as if they were, to an unknowable degree, possessed by another discourseas if they were reciting fragments from a foreign, sacred, or ancient script. Babette, on the other hand, has a very different perspective; she adores preparing exquisite food to delight others, and when she is finally given the chance to do this for the sisters and their congregation, the story takes on new life. On a cold afternoon, Paradise became silent as the eternal praises of angelic sublimity were broken by the loud utterance of these words: \"Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?\"Today, this long cry still echoes throughout the world from the heart of the Greatest among all artists, and whose only chance of redeeming every child ever conceived into creation became an unbreakable Promise on the exhale of a final breath. Philipas suitor was a great opera singer named Achille Papin. Technically, the problem here is a matter of written speech attribution. [21], In December 2019, it was announced that Alexander Payne had been asked to direct an American remake of the film. Did he make the right choice? And each of these sections share a similar structure. They open their mouths to utter words that seem only partly their own. It was, they realized, when man has not only altogether forgotten but has firmly renounced all ideas of food and drink that he eats and drinks in the right spirit. 20. The second is the date of Anyone who has read that book, or seen the 1985 film of it, knows that, at the end of her time in Africa, she returned to her native Denmark where she would live out her days . [2], The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.[3]. 2023 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Several times during her career, Blixen was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature. One of the towering figures of postwar French literature, Marguerite Duras was also an innovative filmmaker whose rarefied cinematic style dared audiences to see less and listen more. This registers, unconsciously, as a sin against the spirit, and one is not surprised to hear that, after the pastors death, the little circle of believers becomes riven by disputes. [5] He shifted the location to the flat windswept coast of western Jutland and asked his set designer, Sven Wichmann, to build a small grey village offering very few or no attractions. But somehow this evening tongues were loosened. She adds: Most often the people in Berlevaag during the course of a good meal would come to feel a little heavy. Get info about new releases, sales, and our online publication, Current. The General delivers a monologue: Mercy and truth, my friends, have met together, said the General. All the changes I undertook, I did to actually be faithful to Karen Blixen. Upon first reading you might think this is a beautiful way to end this story, but it is a bit more complex. hb```b``f`e`fb@ !((; w;lPqsCF)c&MEJ ]LX- "&Pa^w;dH? }]t[PY lk}!% a(Fut t0g Kf40ett1`1phTiQ Q4 CLZCOC+FMVE
2r1qa&b This reconciliation was achieved through a feast, the intermingling of spiritual and sensuous beauty. Chef Oliver Rowe took on the challenge of cooking it in 2016 London. Quotation marks promise minimal distortion, minimal claim to ownership by the speaker. On that bare scalp of Golgotha, the Master of all sculptors and scientists told His virginal Mother to behold all men and women into that same Womb where He Found nourishment and protection from the world. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Filippa then says: "But this is not the end, Babette. After some years, a French woman refugee, Babette, arrives at their door, begs them to take her in, and commits herself to work for them as maid/housekeeper/cook. [11] Birgitte Federspiel, best known for Carl Dreyer's 1955 classic film Ordet, was cast as the staid, lovelorn Martine. More than just a feast, the meal is an outpouring of Babette's appreciation, an act of self-sacrifice. . but Mercy and truth . Certainly, story and film are studded with religious referencesto the Last Supper, to sacramental grace, to the importance of charity, and so onbut given that the milieu being depicted is religious, this should contain nothing to surprise us. To ask this of a piece of writing seems, for Dinesen, to confer upon it the proper status of story. The tale takes us into the milieu of a little Scandinavian fishing village toward the end of the nineteenth century, where a widowed pastor, aided by his two daughters, Martine and Philippa (christened, we are piquantly told, after Martin Luther and his friend Philipp Melanchthon), has set up an informal religious network devoted to hymn singing and local works of charity. The seven-course menu in the film consisted of: Upon its release in 1987, Babette's Feast received positive reviews. General Lorens Lwenhielm : One day in Paris, after I'd won a riding competition, some French officers invited me out to dine at one of the city's finest restaurants, the Caf Anglais. Loewenhielm serves as a foil for the ascetics: They want to achieve spirituality so badly that they deny the world in order to attain it; he wanted spirituality so badly that he ran away from it because it frightened him and instead embraced worldly pleasures. Because their lifestyle requires shunning the pleasures of the flesh, they had never considered food a luxurious experience to be enjoyed. He is unaware of the other guests' austere plans and as a man of the world and former attach in Paris, he is the only person at the table qualified to comment on the meal. The dinner is a symbolic liturgy: singing, eating, drinking, a sermon from the general, reconciliation, and a concluding blessing. The repetition of his phrase suggests not so much that he is its source as that a common source stands behind both him and the General. He begins his speech proclaiming that man is is frail and foolish. This coming from a military man, a man whose life was outlined by the strength and glory of man. [8] We know they are the symbols of spiritual beauty because their father had started a pious Ecclesiastical order and named his daughters after Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon. O General fala, a voz claramente a sua, e, no entanto, as palavras e a sua maneira de falar no lhe so familiares. eNotes.com In this celebratory feast, he says, "righteousness and bliss shall kiss one . The response of the other guests at the dinner suggests that the author is aware of the effect and intends it: The Brothers and Sisters had not altogether understood the Generals speechand yet, his collected and inspired face and the sound of well-known and cherished words had seized and move all of their hearts (53). (2,232) 7.8 1 h 43 min 1988 G. In 1871 France, a woman flees a commune and seeks refuge in an austere village in Denmark. Still more broadly, however, this effect is to be seen in Dinesens very concept of a character in a story. This effect of possession defines, to some extent, nearly everything spoken by characters in Dinesens stories. This page was last edited on 31 December 2022, at 13:46. The guest, a General at the Swedish court, is not related to the sister, but, as a callow young man, was in love with her, but chose his military career over happiness with her. H um momento em Babettes Feast, um dos contos mais conhecidos de Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), em que o personagem do General Lorens Loewenhielm se levanta, um pouco embriagado no fim do sumptuoso jantar, e oferece um discurso aos restantes convidados, todos eles membros idosos de uma seita religiosa. Originally published in English (not her native tongue but a language Dinesen had mastered), the story could, I suppose, have been shot in English tooas an international coproduction. That would have been a pity, though. The suggestion is that the General,enraptured by the feast and in the Deans pious circle, becomesa fervent mouthpiece for a message sent forth by the Dean himself. In his directorial debut, Robert Townsend channeled his frustrations with the typecasting of Black actors, resulting in a satire whose hilarious critique of Hollywood still resonates today. endobj If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title.. Blixen's original story takes place in the Norwegian port town of Berlevg, albeit in an inaccurate setting of multi-coloured wooden houses on a long fjord. Whereas Babette embraces worldly experience and pleasure (though not to excess), the sisters consciously avoid such things. The girls, who are pretty and talented as well as pious, would in the natural course of affairs seek husbandsexcept that the pastor, who is in other ways not a bad man, claims that he needs them for his ministry, and selfishly drives off their suitors. Righteousness and Bliss have kissed one another (2324). For he was in the habit of forming his speeches with care, conscious of his purpose, but here, in the midst of the Deans simple congregation, it was as if the whole figure of General Loewenhielm, his breast covered with decorations, were but a mouthpiece for a message which meant to be brought forth. Babette arranges for her nephew to go to Paris and gather the supplies for the feast. Babette's Feast (Danish: Babettes Gstebud) is a 1987 Danish drama film directed by Gabriel Axel. The role of the Swedish General Lorens Lwenhielm, the former suitor of Martine, was accepted by Jarl Kulle and the Swedish Court Lady by Bibi Andersson. Set in 19th century Denmark, Babette's Feast centres on an extravagant village feast of turtle soup, quail, cheese, and wine. International Network for Comparative Humanities, Mirror and Dialogue, Techniques of Selfhood. . [16] It also received the BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Language Film. }/mOY]W4On~_|w_'w/xO /1/>Mk?Ks>_}w4|n?C~g=?O>}OV}wOu>y_x/_7:og_~yq?vZZ?DEgW3ljjTW/h_N;{{sf[j2adcOTj)LwTvh[,i[|7mfh)26>"RKOyg)dvZ40ORKawa3UWlLQ~l]= u`ZrWnxFG1b{ ?B{)j#}mMRvNcD5f. This closeness is hinted at earlier in the story, when the sisters have taken Babette into their home and are getting to know her better. Why should the movie be set in Denmark, for example, when the story is located in Norway? Thirty-five years later, Babette Hersant (Stphane Audran) appears at their door. [18], The movie is a favorite of Alton Brown,[19] Pope Francis,[20] and Rowan Williams. The citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. Axel remembered Audran from her roles in Claude Chabrol's films Violette Nozire (1978) and Poulet au vinaigre (1985). (Anecdotes52). Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. They have many suitors, but their father rejects them, as he selfishly wishes to retain the assistance of the young women to further his pastoral mission. His vision of Philipas beauty was the beauty of her singing in church. Babette's Feast: General Loewenhielms Speech - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Ah! she added, the tears streaming down her cheeks. The last date is today's Blixen tells us that till now he had not been aware of any particular spiritual gift in his own nature. This gift He gave to all, including those few soldiers who, in that same instant, were dividing His garments among themselves by casting lots in the cold wind. His aunt is a member of the religious community. hbbd```b``
"@$c,, 2023 . Music provides a similar case in point: the opera singer Achille Papins seduction of Filippa while teaching her the famous duet from Don Giovanni faithfully transcribes an episode from the original (Dinesen goes so far as to remind her readers of the melody by printing a couple of bars of it on the page). Two other major parts were the characters of the elderly maiden sisters, Phillipa and Martine. Contrast endobj Dinesen reveals a realization they make: She had appeared to be a beggar; she turned out to be a conqueror. The contrast between the first impression she made and the person she actually is only important because the sisters keep their hearts open to finding out who Babette really is. Notice what beauty does for the sisters sanctuary of spiritualness. If there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original But the grand irony is that these golden hues reside in, on and around the sisters, the symbols of spiritual beauty. He talks at such length and in such a searching manner that the words fall together in a confusion that is evidently his own. Axel was supported by the Danish Film Institute's consultant, Claes Kastholm Hansen, who also agreed the cast should include international stars. There isnt as much pruning to do as there is with a novel, so that, other things being equal, there is a fairer chance of the cinematic outcome being faithful to the spirit of the original. The group of elderly villagers was composed of Danish actors, many of whom were well known for their roles in the films of Carl Theodor Dreyer. Thus there are two stories, at least, going on in the closing stages of the film. And in turn the spiritual beauty of the sisters and the town had provided for Babette the beggar, who was a communist revolutionary, a true community. Her characters remain at a distance, not quite on our level, not quite human. Having trained as an actor in Paris under the legendary Louis Jouvet, he came to prominence back in Denmark in the early fifties as a master of the new genre of television drama, before moving over to cinema, where he directed an assortment of popular comedies. All of her political aspirations were fulfilled not in a revolution but in the spiritual love of Phillipa and Martina. Honored by men with a crown of thorns and a thousand spits, this King was the very incarnation and origin of Babette's words 'An artist is never poor'. After hearing that Americans were interested in stories about food, Karen Blixen (pen name Isak Dinesen) wrote a short piece centered on the personal and spiritual transformation of a small and elderly congregation of pious Catholics after experiencing for the first time, the gastronomic delights of a "true French feast". online is the same, and will be the first date in the citation. As well as being logistically more convenient for what was, after all, a Danish production, the west coast of Denmarks Jutland region, where the story was moved, provides, to perfection, the sort of lonely and unspoiled wildness of landscape that Axel and his team were aiming for. Word Count: 760. The French word lan is an appropriate one for Axel to use; he lived for many years in France as a young man and shares something of Dinesens cosmopolitanism. One day, she wins the lottery and receives 10,000 francs. In fact, small hints in the story suggest that the words come from the Dean, the now-deceased founder of the sect to which the Brothers and Sisters belong, who earlierin the story spoke a similar phrase: Mercy and Truth, dear brethren, have met together. We can agree, at any rate, that Audrans performance is serene and authoritative. Lacking new converts, the aging sisters preside over a dwindling, but faithful, elderly congregation. ", "The Dark Materials debate: Life, God, the universe", "Alexander Payne Rebounds From Cancelled Netflix Project With 'Babette's Feast' Remake", "Alexander Payne Takes On Reimagining Of 'Babette's Feast', "Minnesota will be the setting for remake of Oscar-winning film 'Babette's Feast', "Salut! Vol. And the fact that they live in a yellow house is important because that will be the only distinguishing feature the narrator will include and she does it 10 times, quite a lot in a short story of about 20 pages. Admirable heroine: at once grande dame and democratic freedom fighter, secure in her pride and humility, and undaunted by lifes various batterings. 2004 eNotes.com <> I dont know whether it was a condition of the production contract put in place to raise funds from Swedish sources, but the idea of making General Lorens Lwenhielm, Martines aristocratic former suitor, a Swedish rather than Danish army officer, and of casting the eminent actor Jarl Kulle, from Skne, in the role, was clearly an inspiration. date the date you are citing the material. And as the Son of Man commenced His Spirit in His Father's Hand before dying, so will do all those who give themselves to others in the way He Did. Film language is all about reference, Axel told Bondebjerg. She earns her keep by cooking for the local nuns. 0 [4] However, when Axel researched locations in Norway, he found the settings were too idyllic and resembled a "beautiful tourist brochure". 953 0 obj [15] The film won the 1987 Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Their joyful feasting at the price of her own joyful fasting paralleled the act of a self sacrificial Lamb giving Himself to us as Food of Life to be consumed for the joy and salvation of all. In the film the characters Martine and Philippa symbolizes pure spirituality or the spirit, their suitors Lorenz Lowenhielm and Achille Papin secularity or matter (bodies), Babette symbolizes Jesus Christ, and Babette's feast symbolizes the Christ triumph over death - the power to unite the spirit and the body or the spiritual with the . A Parisian friend annually renews the ticket. Works CitedDinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen). . Babette's Feast (Danish: Babettes Gstebud) is a 1987 Danish drama film directed by Gabriel Axel.The screenplay, written by Axel, was based on the 1958 story of the same name by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). He ispossessed, we might sayhis speech is possessed, he himself remains consciousbut that only raises more questions. And this is not the only yellow the narrator highlights. Both will experience the sensuous beauty of one of the sisters, more precisely Blixen will describe their experience of seeing the sisters as a vision, and that vision that will transform their problem. The sisters notice that the soup-pails and baskets acquired a new, mysterious power to stimulate and strengthen their poor and sick. Whether she is cooking for friends, hostesses, strangers, the needy, or the wealthy, Babette has a special gift with food that fulfills her while satisfying others. publication online or last modification online. Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude. No se trata de solilquio, pardia, disfarce, associao livre Pode aparentar algum trao do drama (o discurso do louco ou do idiota) ou da pica (o rapsodo inspirado pelas musas), mas o gnero e a ocasio so diferentes. : Babette's stuffed quail a French decadence worth recreating", "Babette's Feast and the Goodness of God", "Kierkegaard at Babette's Feast: The Return to the Finite", Voted #3 on The Arts and Faith Top 100 Films (2010), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babette%27s_Feast&oldid=1130695327, "Savarin au Rhum avec des Figues et Fruit Glace" (. Before Babettes Feast, his main moment of international recognition had been for an austere medieval epic set in Iceland, The Red Mantle (1967), widely released in America, though he was probably better known domestically during that period as the documentary investigator of Denmarks liberal sexual mores (1968s Sex and the Law is a characteristic titleand was instrumental in the following years abolition of film censorship). Mercy and truth have met together.Righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another.Man, in his weakness and shortsightednessbelieves he must make choices in this life.He trembles at the risks he takes.We do know fear.But no.Our choice is of no importance.There comes a time when your eyes are opened.And we come to realizethat mercy is infinite.We need only await it with confidenceand receive it with gratitude.Mercy imposes no conditions.And, lo!Everything we have chosenhas been granted to us.And everythingwe rejectedhas also been granted.Yes, we even get back what we rejected.For mercy and truth are met together.And righteousness and blissshall kiss one another.++++++++++Babette's Feast (1987)\"Babettes gstebud\" (original title)Director: Gabriel AxelGeneral Lorens Lwenhielm: Jarl Kulle++++++++++Perhaps it is a desecration to take this scene out of context, but it is so wonderful in context that it shall be risked. Ah, how you will enchant the angels!. We did absolutely everything to ensure that the feast was truly grandiose. That was the point of toning everything else down, because you have to begin modestly if you want to conclude with lan.. Meanwhile, the source of the message remains hidden, and we can still do little better than call his speech possessed. That moment, which so much was portrayed by the hands of the most refined painters during the Renaissance, was executed on the dirty canvas of humanity's cruelty, while the signature at its bottom consisted of God's Masterpiece: that silent Fortress who, under the name of Mary, bore the weight of Her Baby's cross in Her own Womb while tasting the bitterness of all sins ever committed before and after Her Immaculate Conception. To everyones surprise, their differences are not irreconcilable, as General Loewenhielm announces in his toast, Righteousness and bliss have kissed one another! By treating each other with kindness and understanding, the women learn that their differences in no way prevent them from achieving emotional intimacy. In this piquant Danish drama, an exiled artist confronts the uneducated palate, awakening interest if not applause. Blixen then provides two stories of the sisters suitors when the ladies were young. Last Updated on May 5, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. [22][23][24][25] Payne's version was planned to be set in Minnesota. Her script is one that, invisibly, possesses, but one that, elusively, is never wholly recited, performed, or possessed. Last week . publication in traditional print. In 2010, three years before he was elected to the papacy, Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio revealed in an interview that the 1987 film Babette's Feast was his favorite movie of all time. Both men, Lorens Lwenhielm and Achille Papin (Papaw), will come to the town with some problem. 1958. His essential eclecticism of outlook, combined with a fluency of composition that makes no great claims to distinguish between popular and high art, has meant that, in the pantheon of Danish filmmaking, Axel has missed out on the prestige that comes from being thought of as an auteur. But perfection in film art is not exclusively the province of auteurs. Babette's Feast is a sophisticated analysis of the relationship between sensuous and spiritual beauty written by Karen Blixen and then made into an oscar winning film. Righteousness and bliss have kissed one another! These are delicate and beautiful sententiae, and may be most of what we remember when, having seen the film, we come to ask ourselves where its wisdom lies. Most of the contrast is between Babette and her hostesses, Martine and Philippa. The title character of Babette was initially offered to Catherine Deneuve. Papin was a man of the world of entertainment and culture, constantly surrounded by people and women and in the end he is rejected by this woman. Also, this is an unique aesthetic act, unlike architecture or painting where the aesthetic object is outside yourself, with food you consume it, you must completely give yourself to it, there are no allowances for the uncommitted. endobj She stays for many years, cooking the bland food the expect but than asks a favor. A divine feast. He regales the guests with abundant information about the extraordinary food and drink, comparing it to a meal he enjoyed years earlier at the famous Caf Anglais in Paris. For here were the snowy summits, the wild flowers and the white Nordic nights, That is, whereas before he felt small in the beauty of nature, as if he did not fit in, could not see and delight in its beauty, experiencing Philipas beauty transforms his perception of beauty to see Gods beauty in creation. 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